# restore dignity (status)

*Ordinarily means:* to give back a people's sense of worth and respect

To return a collective self to the status its narrative says is its own, after reading that status as set lower by another.

- Computed level: L21 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [status](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-status.social), [narrative](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrative.self-story), [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [return](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-return.movement), [says](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-says.speech), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [low](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-low.spatial)

**Through:** The narrative fixes where the group belongs in others' models; a reading that another moved it lower becomes a promise to return it, which can organise a group around a status rather than a wall.

**Novel properties:**
- a goal defined by a story of the past
- repair aimed at others' models rather than one's own walls

## Examples
- Many anti-colonial independence movements described their aims as restoring the dignity of peoples ruled from abroad. *(history)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-restore-dignity.status*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-restore-dignity.status.json*  
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